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Kobe LED Wall

Prize(s) Winners in Ambient Lighting

Lighting Design/Product Company Muse-D

Lead Designers Martin van der Linden

Completion Date December 2018

Project Location Kobe, Japan

Entry Description

The 4,000m2 Learning Centre is located in the basement of a hotel. In order to avoid a feeling of being boxed in underground we created this LED Wall that we thought would act as an artificial horizon. This LED is the first element that people will see when they enter the space. The wall runs along a corridor and also acts as a guiding principle through the space. The LED is placed behind a wooden slat wall and frosted glass which diffuses the light that changes slowly throughout the day. We programmed the LED with 5 different scenes that create a sense of passing time through these slow changing lights. Although the scenes are completely artificial we hoped that the slow changing of the scenes would help to get a special atmosphere to the space.
We experimented with a series of mock-ups in order to create the scenes we were looking for.